OT: soccer thread

[fatlever]

wow doc, we have 9 of the same guys and my original team had van persie, but i changed him for villa yesterday.

[doc.end]

Lol, even Pienarr. And Canales!

I was considering Cahill as much was wrote abotu him here but i managed to get a glimpse of an articel stating something about some mnor injury so I opted out of him. I admitt I was choosing a lot by what "value" of players was (i.e. how many people selected them). So I was consideing Bendtner for this reason and ended up with Vidic because of that (I wanted not so expensive 5th defender).

I hope Italy will play catenaccio till it will be unwatchable and Buffon will score a lot this way:)


Maybe rosters will be available tomorrow after substitutions will be possible.

[Tupik]

Man, we suck so much. We started playing a bit faster with something like 5mn left in the game, but besides that we completely lack any inspiration.

[e4Nf6]

France-Uruguay was like watching paint dry, I don't think I'm going to watch anymore France games in this tournament. (Other than the Mexico game, which I'm obligated to watch or they revoke my immigration papers) Mexico's defense looks shaky, I'd pick France and Uruguay to go through that group right now.

[Tupik]

Your last sentence says a lot about our usual luck in drawing groups
Seriously, we suck so much...

[WaydownSouth]

That France-Uruguay game...... that was tough viewing...

Anyway, my squad

Goal: Cesar
Def: Evra / Lahm / Cannavaro
Mid: Kaka / Xavi / Schweinsteiger / Fabregas / Sneijder
Att: Messi / Ronaldo

Key Bench:
Def: Vidic
Mid: Cahill
Att: Eto

[doc.end]

BTW after update points chcnged - it looks like they changed attacking and defending bonuses, weird. it actually add me 9 points but nevermind Ribery and Pienaar were substituted already and others may follow 4 points is not enough to be scored I hope.

[Tupik]

My Team :

Buffon

Maicon - Terry - Lahm - Zambrotta

Xavi - Lampard - Kaka - Ribéry

Messi - Eto'o


Ribéry got me 4 points so far.

[Walt Cronkite]

I probably should have looked to see how scoring was handled, but I pretty much took the guys I liked from FIFA 10. I have Buffon, Howard and llores in goal (didn't realize you would only end up having to select 11 guys and was too lazy to redo my entire roster once I did). A German, Italian and some other ballets on d, kaka a french mid and a Dutch guy a d donovan, Ronaldo and messi up front.

I'm in Charlotte still, was Korea good or Greece bad?

[fatlever]

i only saw the last 30 mins of the korea greece game, but from what i saw greece looked awful and korea looked like they had 2 extra guys on the field. those dudes hustle.

argentina should have about 5 goals in this game. messi and higuain have missed some easy chances. still very entertaining game.

btw... i am awful at fifa 10. i cant dribble for more than 2 seconds w/out getting the ball stolen.

[fatlever]

player of the game- nigeria's keeper. dude made some HUGE saves. amazing they only conceded one goal.

[Walt Cronkite]

Just getting home. Go USA!

[fatlever]

usa v england

game on.

please, no red cards today [looking at bradley and clark]

[fatlever]

and clark craps his pants as usual.

[Walt Cronkite]

We're getting nice opportunities. Sucks we gave up such a crappy goal early.

[fatlever]

jozy almost gets the header... shoulda put a better effort on that one.

im still mad at clark.

[Walt Cronkite]

That could be big...

[fatlever]

howard down = OH ****

[fatlever]

wright-phillips... all 5'4" of him.

second look, thats a terrible challenge by hesky vs howard. why isnt that a yellow?

[SWedd523]

Can we please get Torres in there for Clark